Canto Digital Asset Management (DAM)
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Canto hits the sweet spot for price and features
What do you like best about the product?
We love having a single library, that's easy to access, easy to curate, and easy to share/find content. When looking at all of our options, we found that Canto hit the sweet spot between price and performance.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only downside that we've noticed is that it can be a bit slow to load screens at times. But it's really not a problem.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As an over 200-year-old company with a history of catalogs and eCommerce, to say we've accumulated a lot of digital assets through the years would be an understatement. Like many others, our assets were scattered throughout different directories on network file shares, cloud environments like Sharepoint and Google Drive, as well as local computers. We wanted a central repository to consolidate everything going forward; assign a "librarian" to organize and curate the content; have permissions to ensure appropriate people are uploading content to appropriate locations; and then have an excellent way to organize the content by tags, keywords, custom properties, albums, etc. so that our team can easily find what they are looking for without wasting time looking in random file shares. Canto does all that and more.
Great way to get organized!
What do you like best about the product?
Canto is very user-friendly and makes it super easy to share images and editing needs company-wide.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing not to like about this software! It's easy to use and a great way to stay organized.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This solves the problem of independent freedom by allowing different team members to be able to find what they are looking for without having to ask the organizer. If the assets are correctly tagged then anyone can find what they need with ease.
Canto is Perfect for Asset Management
What do you like best about the product?
Canto delivers on it's promise to simply handle assets in a clear, concise manner that is easily searchable. The keyword functionality is spot on, and the version control is exactly what we need.
What do you dislike about the product?
For the price we would expect Canto to allow us to have more user accounts, especially when it comes to 3rd party logins for vendors who simply just want to one time data dump assets from things such as a photo shoot.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before Canto all of our assets were on separate hard drives scattered across multiple employees. Now, all of our assets are stored in one place where we can easily find them and see the latest versions.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Contact their team for a live demo and play with it for a week. You'll find it's super intuitive, easy to use, and very versitile!
Canto did a great job at LDRLY
What do you like best about the product?
GD connectivity (direct upload of files), look & feel, how easy it is to use it, shareability and searchability of the files
What do you dislike about the product?
Probably some issues with the speed of GD sync, easier download function and I'd love few UI customization options (but this is really personal)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having all our files in one place, easy way to search for the files, share them internally and with outside partners
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great platform to sort out your files and have an easy access to them. Search and tagging functions are excellent!
Canto meets our requirments
What do you like best about the product?
We like how people from outside our organization can submit photos. The ability to tag and rate the photos. We like the portal feature so we can give access to photos without giving access to the whole system.
What do you dislike about the product?
When tagging the photos Canto does not look out for spelling mistakes or errors. Which if not paying attention can lead to tagging issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problem we are solving is gathering photos from outside our organization and inside. We realize people who take photos for us can easily submit them to us.
Canto Digital Asset Management
What do you like best about the product?
Canto has changed our workflow by allowing us to have better and faster access to our our digital assets. The platform is easy to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
I do not have any areas that I dislike to date.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have solved turnaround time of needed digital assets. Canto has also allowed us to work as a team verses in silos with digital assets. Our largest problem that Canto solved is that we had 20 years of digital assets in various folders. We were able to upload a large portion of those digital assets to improve historical search.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
We researched several digital asset management systems and kept going back to Canto. I highly recommend the platform for your use. The system is easy to setup. The Canto team did a wonderful job onboarding our organization. Overall, great system.
A seamless, easy-to-use tool for asset management
What do you like best about the product?
Canto's tagging feature is incredible! I so appreciate the many ways you can cross-tag and sort assets.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a bit of a learning curve with Canto; while it's not difficult to use, there is some education required.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The unique problem of knowing what photo you're looking for, but having no idea in what folder or database it might be.
Time Saver!
What do you like best about the product?
I love how we can get everything organized in one place AND crop before downloading.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing stands out as a dislike for the platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The biggest problem it solved was having content in one place rather than multiple places.
Canto's a Life-Saver for Designers
What do you like best about the product?
We'd be totally lost without Canto. We utilize Canto for storing all of our completed artwork, our assets, and also our training documents. It's our "go-to" for everything we do, other than our design software. Of course, Canto is something we use daily! We're currently training and re-training our teams to be able to use the CMS to be able to share everything with their clients, as well as using the file sharing feature to share files that otherwise would be too large to send via email. The portals are a real plus as well. We now have several client-facing portals where they download the completed art files for their use. We're able to share our internal files with the sales representatives to in turn share with their customers. The customer support is the best as well. I've gotten stuck late on a Friday evening when everyone else was out of the office. Canto's support was right there with me, and saved me from a huge mess!
What do you dislike about the product?
I've never shared anything I dislike about Canto, but I have to say I've found something! I'd like to share in hopes of improving this feature. Just recently, we were informed of an update in Canto's search feature due to an acquisition. The team was looking forward to an update since our designers as well as the marketing team searches a majority of the day for files on Canto. We were told it was an "amazing" update. Well, I'm quite disappointed in the update, as it seems much worse than the previous search feature. I've heard the same from several team members as well, and these are designers who are fluent with online platforms. I even submitted a help ticket to Canto one day and I was told how to use it, and how to filter things. Well, needless to say, I'm still having a lot of trouble. The search feature is slowing down my work on a daily basis.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Canto software to store our final artwork and internal files, such as brand guidelines, images, logos, etc. It's a necessity to have everyone access all of this online instead of a local server, so anyone anywhere can access the files. We're able to quickly set up client portals for our clients to access, view or download their final art files with ease. Without a CMS like Canto we'd be lost a dozen or more times due to different designers working on the same projects, or having sync issues with Sharepoint. Canto has solved most all of our problems since we stopped using internal servers. Anyone with an internet connection can access any files with ease. We're no longer tied to outdated servers with outdated equipment. We're able to simply log in online to access everything we need. Canto has solved so many issues for us and our clients instead of using an internal server!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Canto is easy-to-use, affordable software which provides everything your organization needs for digital asset management. Their customer support is the best, which is a massive plus with a large remote workforce.
Collaboration at it's best
What do you like best about the product?
Canto is used throughout multiple departments at my company. It is primarily used for graphic assets and branding. It is allowing the marketing department to streamline our text, colors and graphics between Email, Video and Print
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface is a bit confusing when you first open the program, it takes a bit to get used to the flow
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before using Canto, our videos did not match the email marketing campaigns, but now everything looks clean and together.
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